Esther Dyson comments on the changes that WiFi-connected bloggers are making at conferences -- what does it do to a talk (or, by extension, to any instruction), if the audience in interconnected and conversing and commenting while the speaker flaps his gums?

As it turned out, however, none of Lehman's largest counterparties failed-so much for the idea that the financial market is "interconnected" - but all market participants now realized they had to know the true financial condition of their counterparties.

I've been ruminating over writing a post about the the level of globalization, that is to say the interconnected state of the world in the age of the Internet, satellites and air travel, in humble little Sacramento.

I've been ruminating over writing a post about the the level of globalization, that is to say the interconnected state of the world in the age of the Internet, satellites and air travel, in humble little Sacramento.